The mine again

[Gumboot]

40 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

He might be working with my kid.  Is he with Designer Group?

Nope.  Pentair.  Primarily water pumps.

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2 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

Taking my son back to S&T on Saturday.  He'll be a sophomore.  Hoping he passes Calculus and Chemistry this semester.  Summer school for those two classes was a disaster and he had to drop.  A bit worried he might "math-out" as they say.  

Not to worried about it.  Mostly looking forward to some BBQ at Randy's Roadkill. . . 

I hope he makes it.  Rolla is supposed to have the most rigorous math program of any school. 

 

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3 hours ago, Gumboot said:

One of mine graduated from there 8 years ago as a nuclear engineer, then decided he didn't want to work in that field.  He's a mechanical engineer with a company here in KC.  If you don't have a job coming out of that school you ain't trying.

Yeah it's crazy. Her friends who graduated last year are doing really well.

[Flysmallie]

21 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

Taking my son back to S&T on Saturday.  He'll be a sophomore.  Hoping he passes Calculus and Chemistry this semester.  Summer school for those two classes was a disaster and he had to drop.  A bit worried he might "math-out" as they say.  

Not too worried about it.  Mostly looking forward to some BBQ at Randy's Roadkill. . . 

Math is tough for some. I didn't make great grades in Math but was always able to understand it and get by. My 3 daughters have not been as lucky. They just don't get it. 

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I was real lucky just like my daughter.  Breezed right through it.  My wife however struggled.  

[Flysmallie]

8 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I was real lucky just like my daughter.  Breezed right through it.  My wife however struggled.  

 

I used to sit in the back of the room of my physics classes and pick out the cute chicks that I would help make it through. That stuff seemed so simple to me but was obviously very difficult for some. 

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17 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

 

I used to sit in the back of the room of my physics classes and pick out the cute chicks that I would help make it through. That stuff seemed so simple to me but was obviously very difficult for some. 

I took Organic 1, Physics 1 and Calc 1 in the same semester.

First day of organic the kid next to me says.  "How many time is this for you?"   😂  That class keeps more people out of being a doctor than anything....

[Quillback]

By the time finals rolled around for Calculus I, I would say that there were about 50% of the students left standing.  I had no problem following along the lecture, but I would forget just about everything 3 days later.  I had to do my homework and study a lot before the tests.  Once I graduated, never used any of that stuff again, but that piece of paper helped me to have a good career.  

[Flysmallie]

I had to take a two week course to get into an advanced electronics class. On the last night we were to take a test. As we entered the class we were handed a circuit board and were told that all we had to do was find Theta for the circuit. Took me a little over two hours to get my answer. After everyone was done our tests were graded right then. Prtetty easy since there was only about 20 of us and we each only had one answer. All of us failed. You had to make hundreds of calculations to come up with an answer. And that was after you had determined resistance of every component on the board. One little error in any of that and you were going to fail. Luckily it wasn't totally about having the right answer and about half of us got to move on to the class. And that class was an absolute blast and we got to do a lot of crazy things. All of our tests were projects. Building circuits, making circuit boards, wiring those boards into computers so they could be controlled by a computer. My final project was taking a remote control truck and building a circuit board that could be wired into a computer so the keyboard controlled the truck. Around 10k lines of Assembly language code and that baby performed perfectly. 

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1 hour ago, Quillback said:

By the time finals rolled around for Calculus I, I would say that there were about 50% of the students left standing.  I had no problem following along the lecture, but I would forget just about everything 3 days later.  I had to do my homework and study a lot before the tests.  Once I graduated, never used any of that stuff again, but that piece of paper helped me to have a good career.  

Organic chem 1 started with about 70 and finished with a dozen or so.